Don't leave a voicemail, seriously.

No, DUDE, don't be embarrassed because I am completely with you. I live in the South, from (statistically) the WHITEST COUNTY in my state, and I had some really effed up ideas about race. Like, stuff that's maybe kind of funny now, but also HORRIFYING. It took getting out of my small town and going to college at a big university before I started to realize how skewed my worldview was.

I completely agreed with reverse racism, because I was like, "Oh, yes, black people have been rude to me," and I know that was so, so stupid in retrospect, (LOL, FAIL, ME) but there you go. It doesn't matter if you're late to the boat -- at least you got on the boat!

People interchange the words prejudice and racism when they really shouldn't, but I feel like a lot of them would... understand that they're wrong if you just explained to them that, No, racism is not about the color of skin, it is about power, authority, belief in superiority, and hundreds of years of ALL that shit. Prejudice is an entirely different beast, and hell yes there are blacks who are prejudiced against whites; there are whites who are prejudiced against other whites. But that's not racism. And arguing that "semantics" doesn't change anything, just, FLAMES. OF RAGE. ON THE SIDES OF MY FACE.

Anyway, the conclusion of this ramble is, you're totes not alone.

And, hahaha, sorry, I can never think of racism and PC without thinking of Dave Chappelle's skit on racism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4WoAnty748